The abolitionists
Subtitle: a collection of their writings
Publisher: Capricorn Books
Published: 1964
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 259
Subjects: Abolitionists; Slavery; Controversial literature; Antislavery movements
Description: A collection of essays, speeches, poems, and letters by outspoken abolitionists who were instrumental in forming northern attitudes during the pre-Civil War era.
Table of contents: title: The Editor to the public / Benjamin Lundy; title: Commencement of the Liberator / William Lloyd Garrison; title: The New England Anti-Slavery Society; title: Letter from Beriah Green to Reverend S.S. Jocelyn; title: Words of encouragement to the oppressed / William Lloyd Garrison; title: Whittier on "Justice and Expediency"; title: The Sin of slavery and its remedy : containing some reflections on the moral influence of African colonization / Elizur Wright; title: An Abolitionist novelist, Lydia M. Child, protests slavery and segregation; title: Amherst College forms an Anti-Slavery Society; title: A Petition to abolish slavery in the District of Columbia; title: Lewis Tappan speaks of William Lloyd Garrison.; title: Declaration of sentiments of the American Anti-Slavery Society; title: A Negro writes of racial intermarraige; title: Lectures on slavery and its remedy / Rev. Amos Phelps; title: An Anti-slavery agent; title: William Jay denies that abolitionists are fanatics; title: Address of the Boston female Anti- Slavery Society to the women of Massachusetts; title: An Abolitionist condemns the attempt to sieze Texas from Mexico; title: The Abolitionists encourage anti- slavery efforts among children; title: Gerrit Smith defends the right of abolitionists to discuss slavery; title: Francis Jackson defends freedom of speech; title: Leaders of the American Anti-Slavery Society reply to an attack by President Andrew Jackson; title: Abolition as the cause of all humanity.; title: A Negro abolitionist condemns discrimination; title: Elijah P. Lovejoy defends his right to free speech; title: The Murder of Lovejoy as seen by Wendell Phillips; title: An Abolitionist study of West India emancipation; title: Angelina Grimkie presents the essence of abolition; title: An Abolitionist editor condemns racial discrimination; title: An Abolitionist protests against the participation of women in the American Anti-Slavery Society; title: Theodore Weld on American slavery; title: James G. Birney frees his slaves and writes against slavery; title: A Negro abolitionist protests against Jim Crow railroads in Massachusetts; title: An Abolitionist view of the American church and slavery.; title: Can abolitionists vote or take office under the United States Constitution?; title: A Former slave issues an anti-slavery newspaper; title: An Anti-slavery address / Theodore Parker; title: Anti-Garrisonian abolitionists support the Liberty Party candidates; title: Philosophy of the abolition movement / Wendell Phillips; title: William Lloyd Garrison's farewell to the readers of the Liberator; title: Theodore Weld's final evaluation of Garrison's career.